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EYRE PENINSULA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peninsula of southern Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Holonyms ("Eyre Peninsula" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)